Artist.......: Gojira
Album........: Live au Festival des Vielles Charrues
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Death Metal
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2011-08-25
Str.date.....: 2010-07-17
Quality......: 243kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.gojira-music.com
track title time
1. Live au Festival des Vielles Charrues 70:12
Runtime 70:12
Size 122.38
Release Notes:
Taking their name from the original Japanese pronunciation of Godzilla, French
heavy metal quartet Gojira have risen from utmost obscurity during the first
half of their career to widespread global recognition in the second, including
regular mention amongst the genre's leading new millennium upstarts. Originating
from the town of Bayonne, on France's southernmost Atlantic Ocean coastline,
Gojira recorded the first in a sequence of almost yearly demos in 1996,
gradually honing their sound until the year 2000, when bandmembers Joe
Duplantier (vocals/guitar), Christian Andreu (guitar), Jean-Michel Labadie
(bass), and Mario Duplantier (drums), felt ready to record their first album,
Terra Incognita, relying solely on their own devices. And despite its
independent status, the aptly named LP made significant waves with its
unpredictable blend of death, thrash, groove, progressive, and math metal --
recalling bands as diverse as Pantera, Meshuggah, Suffocation and Sepultura.
Still, it took several years (and a curious detour into soundtrack music on
2003's Maciste All Inferno EP) for the metal world to catch on, and even
Gojira's second album, The Link, had to be released through tiny independent,
Boycott Records, before being reissued by Listenable. (This was followed by
2004's The Link Alive live album and DVD, whose audio component was limited to
500 copies -- a parting shot for Boycott.) Now finally gathering steam, Gojira
saw their third full-length, From Mars to Sirius, enter the French charts at
number 44, while collecting the most enthusiastic reviews of their career -- a
level of acclaim that led, in turn, to numerous key European festival
appearances, and lengthy European and North American tours with bands like
Obituary, Hatesphere, Children of Bodom, and Machine Head, to name but a few. By
the end of the album's long promotional cycle, Gojira were widely acknowledged
as a force to be reckoned with, on-stage and in the studio, and their much
anticipated fourth LP, The Way of All Flesh (released stateside by Prosthetic
Records), made a strong showing by debuting at number 138 on the American
charts, in October 2008.